Obama Keeps it Real on Race.....

This week's speech in Philly on race will be one that colleges and universities, parents and grandparents, will be talking to youngins about for years. Obama kept it real....real intelligent! It's been a while since I've witnessed anyone articulate America's racial divide from the perspective of African-Americans AND whites they way he did. If you didn't catch it, here it go...



Now if you heard or read this whole speech in it's entirety (not just the media soundbites), yet see no value in it, or you're still caught up thinking about Rev. Wright, then I have to say that you're pretty much stuck on stupid. Obama's spoke about something so much more beyond the Rev's words, to go deep into the conditions in our society that would breed those type of sentiments. This is something many of us don't want to discuss or think about, but as Obama said, ignoring the race problem in America won't make it go away. While other politicians are pussy-footing around the race issue, or using race as a way to feed off of people's prejudices to get votes or support, Obama is putting this issue out in the open in an honest objective way so that we can be first AWARE that it's still a problem, to inspire a DIALOGUE about it, in order to begin to address MISCONCEPTIONS and INJUSTICE in a way that leads to HEALING.


By the way, now more than ever I see Barack as a shining, brilliant star. When this Rev Wright stuff came out, he could have run away from this issue like a punk-azz marc, but instead he not only addressed it, distinguishing himself from his reverend's comments without dogging him or selling him out, and then TURNED THIS INTO AN OPPORTUNITY TO SCHOOL the American public on their dirty laundry. I mean, he put RACE IN YO' FACE, which I know the enemy did not expect him to do.

By the way, I hope that for all of you negroes who got on Barack for not talkin' about "Black issues" or "The Black Agenda" or "Black problems" can calm the phuk down now.